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5 reasons to become a Product Owner at Mirego
May 4 — 2022
According to a World Economic Forum report published in 2020, the Product Owner profession tops the list of emerging jobs in the field of product development. But beyond the good salary and work conditions, why do Product Owners love their job so much?
In the agile project management framework, the product owner’s role consists in defining the digital product’s backlog and prioritizing features. At Mirego, product owners are true maestros, guiding the development of digital products from conception up to their constant evolution.
" At Mirego, you stand in the client’s shoes, but when you’re meeting with the client, you represent the Mirego team. "
⏤ Emile Bélair, Product Owner at Mirego.
While the path to becoming a PO is often atypical, most POs share these common traits: they want to make an impact and they have the ambition to design exceptional digital products.
Concretely, what are the advantages of being a Product Owner at Mirego, rather than elsewhere?
1. To be backed by the best technical team.
To believe in your product, you must first trust the team supporting it.
" Working with A players makes your life easier, because you get to do more with your product for the same budget. The quality of the technical team at Mirego is what enables us to make magic. "
⏤ Anne Morin, Lead Product Owner at Mirego
At Mirego, POs enjoy the full confidence of working with a competent and experienced technical team. Backed by the team’s strength and the inherent trust they have in their projects, POs can focus on what they do best: transforming our clients’ problems into functional and coherent digital solutions that will ease and improve users’ lives.
2. Working with a diversity of customers and products.
No two days are the same for Mirego’s POs. Working on the development of dozens of digital products each year, there’s no room left for boredom. Tackling a diverse range of daily challenges, POs broaden their horizons, constantly seeking to innovate tailoring technological solutions to the client’s business objectives.
🚫 What you’ll never experience at Mirego: A 9 to 5 job centred on keeping a single, outdated digital product alive.
✅ What you’ll get to do at Mirego: Figure out the best way to make Golf Canada’s app run on an Apple Watch; design a digital kiosk with the objective to optimize the skier experience at the Massif de Charlevoix; hop on a Toronto-bound flight to attend a design workshop for a client’s new product feature.
3. Enjoy a collaborative culture.
Our Product Owners are fully accountable for their products, without having to bear alone the full weight of ensuring successful completion.
" We believe close collaboration between the strategy, design, and development teams is core to building exceptional products. […] A successful product is the result of many small decisions made along the way by several stakeholders. "
⏤ Excerpt from our Manifesto’s ninth principle.
Inspired by the collaborative culture at the heart of Mirego’s DNA, POs find it completely natural to help one another, and often do so without a second thought. Whether it’s attending training sessions in a Mirechalet or simply discussing a theoretical model at a horizontal meeting* POs enjoy ample opportunities to work together and share expertise. Constant, collaborative work is how we set our POs for success, so they can better compose with multiple constraints, quickly move beyond roadblocks, and bring the best possible solutions to our clients. More support = less frustration!
* Horizontals are cross-functional meetings during which team members get together to contribute their expertise, share discoveries, and jointly solve problems.
4. Evolve products over time.
Lasting products are adaptable products. At Mirego, we do more than just deliver a product to clients, we support the digital product’s evolution, imagining with our clients the most relevant iterations to constantly improve the product’s business performance as well as the user experience.
" The product comes to life from the moment it goes live and people start using it. That’s when we get to see if the product is successful and notice potential areas for enhancements. From that moment on, we analyze the product and seek feedback from the community. This will guide us in making the product evolve in the right direction. Being trusted by clients and working on the evolution of products is the best part of our job as PO! "
⏤ Tanguy Blactot, Product Owner at Mirego
5. Have daily impact.
Human impact. Through empathy and constant listening, POs have the ability to make a positive impact in their community.
" I have a direct impact on the team I work with. I have a direct impact on every client I speak to. And every day, I’m either triggering smiles or getting things done. There’s not a day that goes by where I don’t feel I’m having a positive impact. "
⏤Anne Morin, Lead Product Owner at Mirego
Industry impact. Some of the products we build at Mirego seek to bring innovation in a traditional industry through implementing a digital solution. For our POs, such technological challenges can even include finding intuitive functionalities for end users who are not tech savvy.
Business impact. POs need to demonstrate business acumen. The ability is essential to understand their clients’ business issues and objectives and to transform problems and limitations into profitable digital solutions.
We could name a ton more advantages to being a Product Owner at Mirego. At the end of the day, the most important thing is that our POs are proud of their work, and that’s what matters most.
" At Mirego, what’s fun is that you can have real satisfaction with what you’ve delivered and say to yourself, ‘Sh*t we built this, it’s so cool! "
⏤ Tanguy Blactot, Product Owner at Mirego